Azure Security Benchmark covers 55.6% of UK Cyber Essentials
20 of the 36 controls in UK Cyber Essentials are already satisfied by evidence you collected for Azure Security Benchmark. 16 are genuine gaps. Every claim below was judged against both control sets and then argued against; the ones that did not survive are published further down with the reason each failed.
This number is directional. It says how much of UK Cyber Essentials your Azure Security Benchmark evidence satisfies. The reverse pair is a different number, often very different, because a security standard has enormous depth for access control and almost none for lawful basis or data subject rights.
62 candidate mappings were examined and 0 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19, review level machine verified. Mappings were judged by Claude Code rather than read line by line by a practitioner. Every claim shows its reasoning so you can check it. Ask and a practitioner will review this pair.
Where the gaps are
Coverage is never evenly spread. A source standard usually satisfies one part of a target almost completely and barely touches another, and which part is which is the thing worth knowing before you plan the work.
Theme level, not control level, deliberately. The per-control list of what is evidenced and what is a gap is the report itself, so publishing it here would be publishing the thing being sold.
Claims that held
A sample. Each one names the control whose evidence does the work, the control it satisfies, and why.
A central identity system authenticating users with unique accounts before access is this control.
Leaver and role change handling removes or disables accounts no longer required.
Limiting and separating privileged accounts with documented role assignments is this control.
Privileged access workstations keep administration off general purpose email and browsing environments.
Separate dedicated administrative accounts is exactly this requirement.
Regular review and reconciliation of privileged entitlements is this control directly.
Requiring strong authentication for privileged roles is exactly this requirement.
Enforced phishing resistant multi factor authentication covers administrative accounts.
Claims that did not hold
Nothing proposed for this pair was rejected in review. That is unusual and worth knowing rather than hiding: it means the candidate set was small and every candidate held.
The full report
Everything above is a sample. The report is every evidenced control and every gap, with the reasoning and the source document behind each one, in a form you can hand to an assessor. $299, emailed immediately.
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